The End of Oil

The entire world will begin to run out of oil between 2004 and 2008! This is described in the book: Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage, by Kenneth S. Deffeyes.

• Order the book
  
• Review at Scientific American. (Sorry, they broke the link. It's a review in 2001, issue 1001.)
• Senate Bill S1333: a solution to the problem! ... except that by 2005 (4 years later) those idiots in congress are still futzing around while we go over the cliff.
• Kyoto protocol "Russia can either be seen as a force for multilateralism or can decide to go it alone and become a new rogue state like the United States", Steve Sawyer, climate policy chief of Greenpeace.
• Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran of MIT Kicking the Oil Habit (2004 Jan 29)
• 2004 March 1:

  Will The End of Oil Mean The End of America?

  Robert Freeman
• 2004 March 18: www.hubbertpeak.com
• 2004 Aug 18: oilpeak.com
• 2004 Oct 3: The Coming World Energy Crisis
  • Beyond Petroleum: The era of declining fossil fuel consumption
• 2004 Oct 7: "Winning the Oil Endgame offers a coherent strategy for ending oil dependence". You can read this book online at www.oilendgame.org, or you can buy it.
  • Winning the Oil Endgame a talk by Amory B. Lovins about the strategy proposed.
• 2005 Jan 10: Hostage to oil: World supply is so precious that more price spikes are inevitable by Marianne Lavelle, U.S. News & World Report.
• 2005 Mar 5: Peak oil primer and links
• 2005 Aug 21: The Breaking Point by Peter Maass, The New York Times. Get ready, here comes the wave!
• 2005 Oct 9: Peak oil and pressures on societies by Peter Lemkin

  This is a list of links related to the scientific discussion of peak oil and related critical social and economic issues - many of which are co-dependent with far reaching implications for the world societies. These web pages define and discuss what is "peak oil", some of the implications, and some solutions that may help lessen some of the coming problems if societies can react in time in a coherent positive way.

• 2005 Oct 9: A Hobbit's Choice: Saruman or Sam by Alex Macsporan
• 2005 Oct 30: Tom Whipple writes for the Falls Church News-Press about Peak Oil.
  • A Sobering Road Ahead
  • The Peak-Oil Crisis: The Storms of August
  • google search Tom Whipple/Oil
• 2005 Nov 3: 'Gas muzzlers' challenge Bush by Roger Harrabin and Steve Hounslow BBC News
  • google: Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative Reggie
  • Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
  
• 2005 Nov 9: www.beyondpeak.com
• 2005 Nov 9: www.hubbertpeak.com
• 2005 Nov 21: Peak Oil resolution in U.S. House of Representatives

  Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States, in collaboration with other international allies, should establish an energy project with the magnitude, creativity, and sense of urgency that was incorporated in the `Man on the Moon' project to address the inevitable challenges of `Peak Oil'.

  109th CONGRESS, 1st Session, H. RES. 507 (There are no direct links to the bill in the stupid Thomas information system. Search for "peak oil".)
• 2005 Nov 30: Beyond Oil by K. Deffeyes. He predicts that the peak of oil production was Thanksgiving 2005.
• 2005 Dec 8: Hearing Understanding the Peak Oil Theory. The Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality, U.S. House of Representatives.
  • The Peak Oil Crisis: The Congress Meets Peak Oil (and likely falls back asleep) Article in Falls Church News-Press December 15-21, 2005
• 2006 Jan 7: Pataki Wants Drivers to Fill Up With Ethanol or Biodiesel by Danny Hakim
• 2006 Jan 7: Solar-Powered Toyota Prius Project Lapp Renewables Ltd., The Photovoltaic Hybrid Car Project